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"As a little girl raised amid the hardships of Michigan's Copper Country, Fenna Vos learned to focus on her own survival. That ability sustains her even now as the Second World War rages in faraway countries. Though she performs onstage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist, behind the curtain she's the mastermind of their act. Ultimately, controlling her surroundings and eluding traps of every kind helps her keep a lingering trauma at bay....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Expanded and revised, this new edition of the best-selling book celebrates the ingenious inventions of women throughout time. As inspiring as they are fascinating, these stories empower readers to imagine, to question, to experiment, and then to go forth ... and invent." --
3) Tightrope
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Burning Cove ; 3
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English
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"An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a machine that could change the world"--
Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning Cove to reinvent herself, but after spending her inheritance on a mansion with the intention of turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, she learns that the villa is said to be cursed. When the first guest, Dr. Norman Pickwell, is murdered...
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"Smart women have always been able to achieve amazing things, even when the odds were stacked against them. In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs tells the stories of the brilliant, brainy, and totally rad women in history who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors. Plus, interviews with real-life women in STEM careers, an extensive bibliography, and a guide to women-centric science and technology organizations--all...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It's Grandparents Day at Ella Mentry School! Alexia's grandmother Mrs. Master makes weird inventions for a living, but A.J. and the gang come up with the weirdest invention of all. And they're going to make a bazillion dollars from it! Will they succeed? Or will their great big idea be flushed down the drain?
9) Patently female: from AZT to TV dinners : stories of women inventors and their breakthrough ideas
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Wiley
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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Profiles ; 7
Publisher
Oliver Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Surveys the lives and work of such innovative women as Grace Hopper, Fannie Farmer, C. J. Walker, and Stephanie Kwolek.
13) Women inventors
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
1996-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Each volume presents brief accounts of five women and their inventions, including Sybilla Masters, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Anderson, and Nancy Perkins.
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Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Ten biographies of American women inventors, including Madam C.J. Walker, Lillian Gilbreth, Beulah Henry, Elizabeth Lee Hazen, Rachel Fuller Brown, Katherine Blodgett, Gertrude B. Elion, Stephanie Louise Kwolek, Edith Flanigen, and Ellen Ochoa.
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The wheel was invented some 5,000 years ago, and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because "real men" carried their bags, no matter how heavy. There were rolling suitcases before the '70s, but they were marketed as a niche product for (the presumably few)...
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English
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"Emma Lilian Todd's mind was always soaring--she loved to solve problems. Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions. As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked. As an adult, typing up patents at the U.S. Patent Office, Lilian built the inventions in her mind, including many designs for flying machines. However, they all seemed too impractical. Lilian knew she could...
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Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"He's a friend...with great benefits! As far as inventor Samantha O'Connel is concerned, work is better than food, a social life...even sex. Of course, all it takes is a single phone call from Matt Wilkinson--the ridiculously hot object of her girlhood fantasies--for Sam to discover even she has some naughty needs that won't be ignored. Sam's biggest challenge is that while Matt is just as much a workaholic as she is, he's also a wealthy, sexy bachelor...
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Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Women have always made great contributions to science, and some of the greatest inventors in history were women, but for far too long many of these individuals weren't recognized for their accomplishments. For example, even today, many people don't know it was a woman, English mathematician Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first computer program. Readers of this accessible volume will learn about Lovelace and many other inspiring women who changed the...
19) The Tiara Club
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Grab your sparkliest tiara, blend your favorite fruity drink, and get ready to laugh and cry with the women of the Tiara Club.
Georgia Elliott grew up in a small Gulf town full of Southern charm, and a superefficient grapevine, so the few secrets she's managed to keep are precious, including that she invented TV's hottest new kitchen gadget, the Miracle Chef. A second-generation beauty queen, Georgia turns to women she knows she can trust to keep...
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Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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This book in the acclaimed Women's Hall of Fame Series profiles 10 incredible women with an itch to invent. Written in an accessible, engaging, and informative style, Incredible Women Inventors examines both the challenges and successes in the lives of ten international problem-solvers. From Anna Sutherland Bissell, inventor of the carpet sweeper, to Elizabeth "Elsie" MacGill, the first woman aircraft designer in the world, young readers will have...
